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The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

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I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the tr...more

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Everything that is,casts a shadow

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Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

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Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all t...more

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...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him,’ was all she said.

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...more